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Today, the Supreme Court issued a 5-4 ruling that upheld an individual’s right to keep and bear arms. For more information, connect to the SCOTUSBlog or SCOTUS Wiki.

Answering a 127-year old constitutional question, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to have a gun, at least in one’s home. The Court, splitting 5-4, struck down a District of Columbia ban on handgun possession.

Justice Antonin Scalia’s opinion for the majority stressed that the Court was not casting doubt on long-standing bans on gun possession by felons or the mentally retarded, or laws barring guns from schools or government buildings, or laws putting conditions on gun sales.

In District of Columbia v. Heller (07-290), the Court nullified two provisions of the city of Washington’s strict 1976 gun control law: a flat ban on possessing a gun in one’s home, and a requirement that any gun — except one kept at a business — must be unloaded and disassembled or have a trigger lock in place. The Court said it was not passing on a part of the law requiring that guns be licensed.

It is a great day to be an American. Feel free to comment below…

Oh noze! Now people in DC will have guns.

I mean, other than all the gang-bangers and criminals who already had guns.

Or the police who already have guns.

Now all those dangerous law-abiding people are going to have guns too.

Haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but is sounds like good news, especially if we’re looking at a liberal-Dem-progressyve admin & congress.